Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus

Book sixteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.

'And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh ...'

The wings that retired Chief Superintendent Lestrade came on were those of a de Havilland Hercules, named Olivia. The archaeologist, Howard Carter, had made the discovery of the century in the Valley of the Kings, but all around him, men were dying: Lord Carnarvon, careless with his razor, fell prey to a mosquito bite; Alain le Clerk left the tomb in a hurry to d...